[brucey]

The contact made is just barely touching. Another 1/4" and it would clear. I've been checking for clearances as I go with a long carpenter's L and it still actually clears, just by the time the belt would go on it would be rubbing itself. Thanks for the catch, I think you may be right. I am simply going to redrill the hole 1/2" up, I have enough room to still clear the hose and the pulley.

But I just killed my battery and am leaving town this weekend, so I don't know how soon that will be. In the mean time I'll be looking at batteries to buy for this (which I still haven't done). I was originally planning on T105's, but have decided against it for room and because I plan to have them in the car. So now I'm looking in the 100~150AH range and I would really really like to get it under 600$, so 100 bucks a battery.

PS Skidds was 2.75 I believe.